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Miroslaw Kowalewski (Mirek), then director and manager, and Piotr Pink (Piotrek) the project manager, first came across as very professional and passionate about their work. After having seen some of their work sites, we entered into a contract with PHS Construction Limited (also trading as Polish Builders) for a full refurbishment of our house including a loft conversion. PHS Construction Limited is currently operating from Grove Green Rd E11.

We were asked to pay a deposit and then weekly instalments equal to the full contract amount divided by the number of weeks for the works. Foolishly, we trusted them and started paying but it was only demolition and scaffold - it looked impressive but nothing more. Works started to slow, we were told not to worry, they even asked up to pay more, we went on holidays and when we came back realised that works had stopped for at least 4/6 weeks but we had been asked to continue to pay and nobody at PHS had even informed us that the works had stalled.

We were then told there were cash flow issues and got blackmailed in paying more if we wanted to get the works to progress. Desperate for the works to start again we did so. They then built the roof structure and did the tiling of the roof. The tiling is really bad with tiles are already falling and many other missing, the roof is leaking, the battens are too short and not fixed, flashing is not set properly, and there are dozen of other issues etc.. They then asked for more money apparently for extra costs but without even being able to produce any explanation/evidence of these extra costs.

By this point in time we had paid more than two-third of the contract value. When we refused to pay more, they pretended that they would do more work but instead hired two unskilled guys who did more damage to the house.

After endless promises, when they realised that we were not going to pay more until they completed a large chunk of the works, they finally ran away all blaming each other, leaving us with a leaky roof and many structural problems (for example the windows opening are not even centred in the dormers, steel beams are in the wrong place, etc.). The site is a mess with debris, holes and rubbish everywhere.

They also took all our money.

All the builders than have come since to give us quotes to continue the works concur that PHS can't have spent more on our site more than half of what we actually paid them).

We are talking about 6 figure amounts here!

The new director Marek Abrahamowicz has never even bothered to get in touch with us to propose a way forward and nobody respond in the office.

In conclusion, their work is highly unprofessional and they are, to say the least, dishonest.

You've already got an identical thread for "Warning Marek Abrahamowicz PHS Construction" - I'd recommend PM'ing one of the board guides and asking for the threads to be merged so you can get any/all responses in one place instead of having to go between 2 (and it'll help the rest of us help you if we only have one place to reply to).

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Apologies for creating a separate thread. I am new to the forum and would like to alert people against this company and its directors and main employee. However, the space in the title was not big enough for me to type all of their names at once. Hence, the multiple posting with different titles. Apologies if this is against the rules or makes responding more difficult. That said, I am not expecting many replies.

I've deleted the other thread, please stop creating more. You can use this thread for any discussion.

Last edited by Chickabiddybex; 12-02-2018 at 11:56 AM.

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